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- the present disclosure relates generally to print job security and, more particularly, to an apparatus and method for securely printing a document.
- Some documents require a high level of security when being printed.
- the document may contain personal information, sensitive financial information, highly confidential information, and the like. These documents cannot be printed on traditional printers as anyone can take the printed documents from the paper tray.
- Some printers use a secured paper tray.
- the printed documents are outputted into a locked or secured paper tray that requires an individual with a key to open the paper tray to obtain the printed documents.
- other portions of the printer are not secure. For example, individuals may stop a printing job and access compartments within the printer during a paper jam to obtain some of the secure documents. As a result, even with secured paper trays, some documents may still be accessible.
- a printer and method for printing a secure document comprising a controller for receiving an indication that a print job contains the secure document, a lock on a printer door, wherein the lock is electrically coupled to the controller, wherein the lock is engaged by the controller after receiving the indication that the print job contains the secure document and the lock is disengaged when the print job is completed successfully and a user interface in communication with the controller for receiving a security code to disengage the lock when print job is interrupted due to an error.
- Another disclosed feature of the embodiments is a method for printing a secure document.
- the method comprises receiving, by a processor of a printer, an indication that a print job contains the secure document, locking, by the processor, a lock on all customer printer door in response to the indication that the print job contains the secure document, determining, by the processor, that an error has occurred during the print job and receiving, by the processor, a security code to clear the error and disengage the lock on each one of the all customer accessible printer doors.
- FIG. 1 illustrates an example printer of the present disclosure
- FIG. 2 illustrates an example lock of the present disclosure
- FIG. 3 illustrates an example flowchart of a method for printing a secure document
- FIG. 4 illustrates a high-level block diagram of a computer suitable for use in performing the functions described herein.
- the present disclosure broadly discloses a printer and method for printing a secure document.
- some documents require a high level of security when being printed.
- the document may contain personal information, sensitive financial information, highly confidential information, and the like. These documents cannot be printed on traditional printers as anyone can take the printed documents from the paper tray
- Some printers use a secured paper tray.
- the printed documents are outputted into a locked or secured paper tray that requires an individual with a key to open the paper tray to obtain the printed documents.
- other portions of the printer are not secure. For example, individuals may stop a printing job and access compartments within the printer during a paper jam to obtain some of the secure documents. As a result, even with secured paper trays, some documents may still be accessible.
- Embodiments of the present disclosure provide additional security to the printer.
- all of the customer accessible printer doors other than the input paper trays where paper is refilled in the printer, may be locked with an electro-mechanical lock or mechanism when a print job is indicated as being a secure document.
- the locks are not mechanical locks that require a physical key that is inserted into a key hole. Physical keys can easily be copied or used by any individual that may possess the physical key.
- any individual may open the printer doors to access papers that are stuck inside of the printer.
- Some of the papers may have information printed on them that are confidential or contain secure information.
- the papers never reach the secure paper tray and, thus, the information on the documents is compromised.
- the present disclosure ensures that the documents remain secure even when an error, such as when a paper jam occurs, when power is lost during the print job, or when an unscrupulous individual manually attempts to pause or stop the print job to remove the documents from one or more transport paths within the printer before the documents are outputted to a secure tray.
- FIG. 1 illustrates an example printer 100 of the present disclosure.
- the printer 100 may be a multi-function device (MFD) that performs a scanning function, a printing function, a copying function, a faxing function, and the like.
- MFD multi-function device
- the printer 100 may be an iGen® printer manufactured by Xerox® corporation that is intended to be remotely located and process a large number of print jobs and documents.
- the printer 100 may include a controller 102 , a user interface (UI) 104 , a scanner 106 , a secured paper tray 108 , one or more locks 110 , 112 and 114 associated with a respective door 116 , 118 and 120 .
- the controller 102 may be a processor that is in communication with the UI 104 , the scanner 106 and each one of the locks 110 , 112 and 114 .
- the controller 102 may receive a print job 130 .
- the print job 130 may be a file or data that is in a format compatible with the communication protocol of the printer 100 .
- the print job 130 may be received by the controller 102 of the printer 100 via either a wired or wireless communication with an endpoint device (not shown) that sent the print job 130 .
- the print job 130 may have a tag 132 that indicates the print job 130 includes a secure document.
- the document may contain personal information, sensitive financial information, confidential information, and the like.
- the document may be protected by a Safe Harbor provision and printing the document may require meeting certain security requirements under the Safe Harbor provision.
- the print job 130 may be sent by the endpoint device that is remotely located from the printer 100 .
- the printer 100 and the endpoint device are at different locations. Said another way, the printer 100 is not within view of a user at the endpoint device that sent the print job 130 .
- the tag 132 may be scanned by the scanner 106 , read by a digital front end (DFE) or processed by the controller 102 . In one embodiment, the tag 132 may provide an indication that the print job includes a secure document.
- DFE digital front end
- the controller 102 may send a signal to the locks 110 , 112 and 114 to engage the locks on the respective doors 116 , 118 and 120 .
- the controller 102 locks all of the doors 116 , 118 and 120 , access panels, or any other means for entry into the printer 100 .
- the doors 116 , 118 and 120 may correspond to any area or transport path of the printer 100 that the secure document may travel through when printing. In other words, any portion of a paper path of the printer 100 that is accessible may be covered by one or more doors and secured by a corresponding lock.
- the locks 110 , 112 and 114 may be an electro-mechanical lock or mechanism.
- the locks 110 , 112 and 114 are not a mechanical lock that can be opened with a physical key that is inserted into a key hole of the lock.
- a mechanical lock can be easily picked, the physical key can be copied, or the key can be stolen and used by any individual.
- FIG. 2 illustrates an example lock 200 of the present disclosure.
- the lock 200 may include a solenoid 206 coupled to a piston 208 on a first wall 202 of the printer 100 .
- the solenoid 206 may be in communication with the controller 102 to receive signals that actuate the solenoid 206 to engage and disengage the lock 200 .
- a slot 210 may be coupled to a door 204 of the printer 100 .
- FIG. 2 illustrates the lock 200 in a disengaged position.
- the controller 102 may send a signal to the solenoid 206 to move the piston 208 into the corresponding slot 210 to engage the lock 200 .
- FIG. 2 only illustrates an example electro-mechanical mechanism of the lock 200 .
- Other designs may be used to provide an electro-mechanical lock that does not use a physical key to engage and disengage the lock 200 .
- the error may be a paper jam, a power loss or an intentional pausing of the print job.
- the locks 110 , 112 and 114 remain engaged until a security code is received via the UI 104 when an error is detected in the printer 100 .
- the UI 104 may be a touch screen or a key pad.
- the security code may be an alpha numeric code that may be provided to a select individual or a small group of individuals.
- the security code may be changed by selected individuals with security code authority. In one embodiment, the security code may be periodically changed for added security (e.g., daily, hourly, and the like). In one embodiment, the security code may be assigned to an individual so that other individuals cannot “steal” the security code. For example, each user may be assigned an account number to enter into the printer 100 . If the account number of the user and the security code assigned to the user do not match, the locks 110 , 112 and 114 may remain engaged. Thus, an individual would be required to know the account number and the security code to disengage the locks 110 , 112 and 114 and access the secure documents that are jammed.
- the locks 110 , 112 and 114 may remain in their current position in case of a power loss (e.g., if locked for a secure document, the locks are in an engaged position and if open for a non-secure document, the locks are disengaged). As a result, an individual could not gain access to the printer 100 by removing power to the printer 100 in the middle of the print job 130 .
- a power loss e.g., if locked for a secure document, the locks are in an engaged position and if open for a non-secure document, the locks are disengaged.
- the controller 102 may send a signal to the locks 110 , 112 and 114 to disengage the locks 110 , 112 and 114 .
- the secure documents may be successfully printed and outputted to the secure paper tray 108 that is locked.
- FIG. 3 illustrates a flowchart of a method 300 for printing a secure document.
- one or more steps, or operations, of the method 300 may be performed by the printer 100 or a computer as illustrated in FIG. 4 and discussed below.
- the method 300 begins.
- the method 300 receives an indication that a print job contains a secure document.
- the print job may have a tag that indicates the print job includes a secure document.
- the document may contain personal information, sensitive financial information, confidential information, and the like.
- the document may be protected by a Safe Harbor provision and printing the document may require meeting certain security requirements under the Safe Harbor provision.
- the tag may be scanned by a scanner, read by a DFE or processed by the controller of the printer.
- the tag provides an indication that the print job includes a secure document.
- the method 300 may determine if the print job is ready to print. If the print job is not ready to print, the method 300 may continuously loop back to block 306 until the print job is ready to print. When the print job is ready to print, the method 300 proceeds to block 308 .
- the method 300 locks a lock on all customer accessible printer doors in response to the indication that the print job contains the secure document.
- the method 300 locks all customer accessible doors, access panels or any other means for entry into the printer 100 to any other areas where either image information or printed information may reside. Said another way, any area, portion or part of the paper path of the printer may be covered by a door and secured with a corresponding lock such that no portion of the paper path may be accessed in case of an error.
- a signal may be sent to a solenoid of the lock coupled to a wall or a door to actuate a piston such that the piston moves into a corresponding slot on an opposite wall or door.
- the method 300 determines if the print job completed successfully. If the print job completed successfully without error, the method 300 proceeds to block 318 . If the print job has not completed successfully, the method 300 proceeds to block 312 .
- the method 300 determines whether the print job is still in progress. If the print job is still in progress, then the method 300 returns to block 308 and the blocks 308 and 310 are repeated or maintained. If the print job is not in progress, then an error has occurred. For example, the error may be a paper jam, a power loss, an intentional pausing of the print job, and the like. The method 300 proceeds to block 314 .
- the method 300 receives a security code to clear the error and disengage the lock on all of the customer accessible printer doors.
- a security code to clear the error and disengage the lock on all of the customer accessible printer doors.
- an individual that is provided with the security code may enter the security code via the UI of the printer.
- the UI may require the individual with the security code to enter the security code for each door separately to track the progress of the individual. For example, to ensure that all doors are checked and that no secure documents are inadvertently left in the printer, the UI may require the individual to access each door one at a time with the security code. The printer may be operated again only when all of the doors with locks are accessed via separate entries of the security code.
- the method 300 determines if the security code is correct. If the security code is not correct, the method 300 continuously loops to block 316 until the security code is correct. If the security code is correct at block 316 , then the method 300 may proceed to block 318 . For example, when the correct security code is entered, the locks may be disengaged and the user may clear the error. For example, jammed paper may be removed from one or more of the transports, nips or rollers of the printer and securely shredded or disposed of. In another example, the printer 100 may be repaired to restore power.
- the method 300 disengages the lock on all of the customer accessible doors.
- the controller may send a signal to the solenoid of each one of the locks that are engaged to move the piston out of the corresponding slot. Once the piston is moved out of the corresponding slot, the lock may be disengaged and the doors may be opened.
- the method 300 determines whether the locks were disengaged from a successfully completed print job (e.g., from block 310 ). If the answer is no (e.g., from block 316 ), then the method 300 returns to block 306 and blocks 306 - 320 are repeated. For example, the lock on all of the customer accessible doors were disengaged due to a security code that was entered to clear an error. As a result, the print job did not complete successfully and must be re-printed or resume printing from where the print job was stopped due to the error.
- the method 300 proceeds to block 322 .
- the method 300 ends.
- one or more steps, functions, or operations of the method 300 described above may include a storing, displaying and/or outputting step as required for a particular application.
- any data, records, fields, and/or intermediate results discussed in the methods can be stored, displayed, and/or outputted to another device as required for a particular application.
- steps, functions, or operations in FIG. 3 that recite a determining operation, or involve a decision do not necessarily require that both branches of the determining operation be practiced. In other words, one of the branches of the determining operation can be deemed as an optional step.
- FIG. 4 depicts a high-level block diagram of a computer that can be transformed to into a machine that is dedicated to perform the functions described herein.
- the computer 400 comprises one or more hardware processor elements 402 (e.g., a central processing unit (CPU), a microprocessor, or a multi-core processor), a memory 404 , e.g., random access memory (RAM) and/or read only memory (ROM), a module 405 for printing a secure document, and various input/output devices 406 (e.g., storage devices, including but not limited to, a tape drive, a floppy drive, a hard disk drive or a compact disk drive, a receiver, a transmitter, a speaker, a display, a speech synthesizer, an output port, an input port and a user input device (such as a keyboard, a keypad, a mouse, a microphone and the like)).
- hardware processor elements 402 e.g., a central processing unit (CPU), a microprocess
- the computer may employ a plurality of processor elements.
- the computer may employ a plurality of processor elements.
- the method(s) as discussed above is implemented in a distributed or parallel manner for a particular illustrative example, i.e., the steps of the above method(s) or the entire method(s) are implemented across multiple or parallel computers, then the computer of this figure is intended to represent each of those multiple computers.
- one or more hardware processors can be utilized in supporting a virtualized or shared computing environment.
- the virtualized computing environment may support one or more virtual machines representing computers, servers, or other computing devices. In such virtualized virtual machines, hardware components such as hardware processors and computer-readable storage devices may be virtualized or logically represented.
- the present disclosure can be implemented in software and/or in a combination of software and hardware, e.g., using application specific integrated circuits (ASIC), a programmable logic array (PLA), including a field-programmable gate array (FPGA), or a state machine deployed on a hardware device, a computer or any other hardware equivalents, e.g., computer readable instructions pertaining to the method(s) discussed above can be used to configure a hardware processor to perform the steps, functions and/or operations of the above disclosed methods.
- ASIC application specific integrated circuits
- PDA programmable logic array
- FPGA field-programmable gate array
- instructions and data for the present module or process 405 for printing a secure document can be loaded into memory 404 and executed by hardware processor element 402 to implement the steps, functions or operations as discussed above in connection with the exemplary method 300 .
- a hardware processor executes instructions to perform “operations,” this could include the hardware processor performing the operations directly and/or facilitating, directing, or cooperating with another hardware device or component (e.g., a co-processor and the like) to perform the operations.
- the processor executing the computer readable or software instructions relating to the above described method(s) can be perceived as a programmed processor or a specialized processor.
- the present module 405 for printing a secure document (including associated data structures) of the present disclosure can be stored on a tangible or physical (broadly non-transitory) computer-readable storage device or medium, e.g., volatile memory, non-volatile memory, ROM memory, RAM memory, magnetic or optical drive, device or diskette and the like.
- the computer-readable storage device may comprise any physical devices that provide the ability to store information such as data and/or instructions to be accessed by a processor or a computing device such as a computer or an application server.
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